<quote who="Ken Foskey">
> I still cannot deliver mail from evolution. Evolution has two options
> SMTP or sendmail
>
> Mozilla is set up as pop3 delivery not SMTP. (I am using Mozilla to put
> out stuff and receiving on evolution).
>
> SMTP has two ways of setting up, with and without password. Without
> password does not work and the password options are greyed (without
> comment) when you click on check for supported types.
>
> All in all I guess evolution is not directly compatible with direct mail
> collection from optushome.
SMTP is for "sending" mail, POP3 is for "collecting" mail. Use those terms,
or you'll forever be misunderstood.
There's no reason why Evolution shouldn't be able to *send* mail via SMTP,
using the correct hosts on optusnet (ie., mail.optusnet.com.au). If it
doesn't, you'll need to tell us the precise error that you're seeing,
otherwise we can't determine who's at fault.
> I want to set up a delivery agent that
> does work. What do I do?
>
> Do I set up an MTA that acts as delivery and directly deliver my mail
> and still use [EMAIL PROTECTED]?
>
> Do I set up the MTA to forward onto mail.optushome.com.au?
You want to set up an MTA to "relay" through mail.optushome.com.au (which is
the same as mail.optusnet.com.au). If you're using Debian, you can set up
exim to do it by running dpkg-reconfigure exim as root. It will ask you a
few questions; you want a satellite system with smart relay.
> Once I do this I can get stuff out, the next question is mail in. I
> would love to set up a spam filter to get rid of the obvious messages.
>
> Has anyone set up these options and can give me the basic set up or
> point me in the correct direction.
The easiest way of doing this is to collect your mail with fetchmail, rather
than using the MUA's collection features. Then you can deliver it to your
spool or home directory with procmail. It will look like this:
Fetchmail collects from ISP -> delivers to local MTA -> which delivers to
procmail -> which delivers to your spool, or folders in your home
directory.
You can also do it with fetchmail delivering direct to procmail, without
using the MTA.
I thoroughly recommend figuring out why Evolution's internal SMTP isn't
working for you, unless you want to spend some time getting to know how MTAs
and their ilk work.
- Jeff
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